Moscow Terminates Military Cooperation Agreements with Canada, France, and Portugal

Russia has formally ended three long-standing military agreements, further severing defense ties with Western nations.

On December 5, 2025, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed decrees terminating:

• The 1989 USSR–Canada agreement on reciprocal military visits (November 20, 1989)
• The 1994 Russia–France defense cooperation agreement (February 4, 1994)
• The 2000 Russia–Portugal military cooperation agreement (August 4, 2000)

The Russian Foreign Ministry has been directed to deliver official notifications to Ottawa, Paris, and Lisbon.

This move follows a similar decision earlier this summer, when Moscow withdrew from its 1996 military-technical cooperation treaty with Germany, citing Berlin’s “excessive foreign-policy ambitions” that “directly threaten Russia’s vital security interests.”